AUSTRALIA BREAKS APART: THE FIRST TAKES

Extreme violence, arrogance, stupidity. Cash. Loads and loads of cash. How the bribes were paid, that he still wondered; through blind trusts, through offshore accounts. Through a former Prime Minister with close connections to the corporate world; that would include a multiple of sinners. He didn't know. All he knew was that it was extremely clever. And that $25 million can no doubt buy the loyalty of almost any politician. Their integrity was so shot. Their moral bankruptcy so complete. They thought the gods were laughing. They didn't know; how deep their betrayal, how complete the compromise.  They were the thoughts wandering through his plundered brain; as his own parent suffered the supreme stupidity, arrogance, rigidity and downright cruelty of a web of Covid diktats most of the population wanted to put behind them. As if nothing had happened.  As if nothing had happened.  That was the extraordinary thing about this permanent present; without a notion of history, wi...

  There had been moments of joy, for sure, as the army shuffled restlessly on the valley ledge, small successes to celebrate, time to kill, destiny to fulfil. Now, spears raised, they stepped forward.  The harm the enemy intended could not be fulfilled. There would be no solution to their many harms, the damage they had done themselves. A vicious fight. A forward joy. They laughed and clinked glasses of ale. They stepped forward in their thousands, spears raised. There was an evil afoot. Elegant, vicious, brutal; they gathered their strength, their power, their enmity, they saw through all of it; the subterfuge, the artifice, the military name-calling gronks who make his life hell in failed Psyop programs, all of it, the enemy clear, the brutality, the cruelty, the ancient evils and the ancient wisdoms, they mustered for the dawn, they would not be denied.  They fortified their soldier.  They made him stronger still. He stood tall and stricken; for already tears of j...

  This massive edifice of evil, was too complex, and, really, too elegant, to assign  to just human awfulness and human inventiveness. It suggested a spiritual dimension of evil. This evil was like a giant cultural spaceship which landed on Earth, with a technology to unfold and almost at once to set foot upon the egalitarian, post-enlightenment West a global dystopia run on cruelty and cognitive dissonance.  How could otherwise nice people have come to do such evil?   Naomi Wolf. The Bodies of Others. "For someone long prepared for this to happen."  He sat on that sunlit step; flooded with light, exhausted, perhaps, to be fanciful about it all, as if he'd just written 1984 and was basking in the glory. Except, of course, George Orwell aka Eric Blair never lived to see the stunning success of his anti-totalitarian novel, and was suffering the effects of tuberculosis even as he wrote it. He certainly never lived to see the book become the most referenced wor...